Altered Notebook 1 by Nikki Acton

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Hi
everyone. I recently found a couple of cheap notebooks I had bought and left
lying around my craft room! I decided I should alter them. Today’s project is
the first of these and tomorrow for the new challenge I will share the second
one.

I
started by placing a piece of copy paper between the cover and the inside pages
to avoid getting paint on the inside lined paper and giving the covers a coat
of black gesso. I took the large That’s Crafty! Fossil stencil and sponged
PaperArtsy Chalk coloured Fresco paint over the front and back cover. Once this
was dry I repeated with DecoArt Fluid Acrylic Dioxazine Purple.

I added
black gesso to piece of white card and embossed with a folder from my stash. I
lightly sanded the surface to reveal some of the white underneath and then
added a Quinacridone Magenta wash. I stamped one of the quotes from Tim Holtz
Motivation stamp set in Black Archival and added a wash of the pink/purple
paints.

Finally
I took some of the That’s Crafty! greyboard butterflies and stippled a little
gesso for texture before painting the same colours.

I
adhered my layers to the surface of the book and once dry coated in matt
varnish.

Version
2 is a little more grungy so do stop by Addicted
to Art tomorrow for all the details!

Hello sweet Nikki!! I always watch your posts and today I wanted to stop by with a note. Your sentiment seems to match the fossil pattern so well. The fossil of good intentions or the procrastination fossil is how my thoughts swirled. The big end of the fossil is the DO IT NOW... and we spiral down - like your sentiment - to never... the tiny end of the fossil - oblivion. Thank you for such a great example of how art can touch the heart or the head with inspiration!! XXj.

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